Experiências adversas maternas e alterações comportamentais na infância

Abstract

Adverse childhood experiences, examples of toxic stress, cause both physical and psychosocial damage throughout life. It can be transmitted over generations, with consequences for offspring, including developmental changes. The objective of this research is to determine the adverse experiences in childhood in a sample of mothers of the Institute of Early Childhood in Fortaleza, Ceará, as well as to determine the behavioral changes in their children, estimating the association between them. The research was carried out with a representative sample of mothers whose children are followed at the Institute of Early Childhood (IPREDE) and were aged between 2 months and 6 years. The mothers were invited to participate in the research and, through their acceptance, signed the Informed Consent Form, answered a structured sociodemographic and family form, and then the scales: Childhood Adversity History Questionnaire (reduced version) - Family ACE Questionnaire and the Survey of Well-being of Young Children (SWYC). The latter is divided into three domains: development ("Developmental milestones" and "Parental observations on social interaction - POSI"), socioemotional / behavioral ("Baby Pediatric Symptom Checkist - BPSC" and "Preschool Pediatric Symptom Checkist - PPSC ") And family risk factors (" Family Questions "), but only the socioemotional / behavior was considered, aiming to seek the association between adverse maternal experiences and behavioral changes in their infants in early childhood